Authorities in western China said Monday that police fatally shot eight "terrorists" who had attacked them using knives and explosives in the latest in a string of violent incidents in the ethnically tense region.

The Xinjiang government news portal Tianshan Net said that the group of nine attacked officers and burned police cars in Shache county, which is overseen by the famed Silk Road city of Kashgar.

It was the latest in a series of attacks pointing to growing unrest in the large sprawling region of Xinjiang, home to a simmering rebellion against Chinese rule among parts of the native Muslim Uighur population who want more autonomy from Beijing. Recent clashes, including an attack on a police station last month, have left dozens of people dead.

A Xinjiang government press officer confirmed Monday's report but said he had no further information. He gave only his surname, Cao. Police reached by phone in Shache and Kashgar said they had no information about the incident.

The Chinese government typically calls such incidents terrorist attacks linked to radicals based overseas, although there is little evidence that they are carefully organized.

USA Today tells us that the Chinese Muslims (Uighurs) are "resentful." *Sigh* When are they not?

This after their jihadi attack on Tiananmen Square. The sniveling cowards at USA Today put quotes around "terror" and "terrorist." And they devote half the article to a victimhood narrative...."Uighur disenchantment is fueled by the feeling that Uighurs and other ethnic minorities have been sidelined..." Yes, so bomb Tiananmen Square. Makes perfect sense.

BEIJING — Police shot dead 14 people in China's far west region of Xinjiang — an area where many Muslims are resentful of the Chinese government — after a group of assailants attacked officers with explosive devices and long knives, state media reported Monday.

The attackers killed two policemen late Sunday when police were arresting "criminal suspects" in a township near the Silk Road city of Kashgar, reported Tianshan, a local government news portal.

Police "decisively handled" the attack, shooting the assailants and arresting two suspects, it said.

Xinjiang, China's huge slice of Central Asia, experiences regular bouts of unrest. Many of its mostly Muslim Uighur people resent the political and economic domination of their homeland by China's ruling Communist Party and the majority Han ethnic group.

Uighurs are suspected in a terror attack at Tiananmen Square in October that killed five people.

Anywhere Muslims emigrate, there is conflict, there is jihad. Anywhere there are Muslims, there is conflict. When they reach a certain level of population, they engage in jihad in order to oppress and subjugate the non-Muslim community, using violence and terror when necessary.

Hey China, welcome to my world. No entity, no state, no nation, no government body, no individual is exempt from the sharia. Criticize or offend savages and you are a racist-islamophobic-anti-Muslim-bigot, no matter how many are murdered in the cause of jihad. And the sharia-compliant media have appointed themselves the enforcers in concert with their paymasters.

BEIJING, Nov 4 (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry on
Monday took a swipe at foreign media for suggesting there may
have been social or ethnic motivations behind last week's
incident involving a car driven into pedestrians on Beijing's
Tiananmen Square.

Last Monday, a car ploughed through bystanders on the edge
of Tiananmen Square and burst into flames, killing the three
people in the car and two bystanders. The government called the
incident a "terrorist attack" carried out by Islamist militants
from the far western region of Xinjiang.

More than 40 people were hurt, and the police have detained
five people in connection with the attack.

Anywhere Muslims emigrate, there is conflict, there is jihad. Anywhere there are Muslims, there is conflict. When they reach a certain level of population, they engage in jihad in order to oppress and subjugate the non-Muslim community, using violence and terror when necessary.

BEIJING – A deadly terror attack not far from Mao's tomb shows that
China may not be prepared for terror attacks that Western nations have
been trying tom counter for years.

"China's counter-terrorism
capabilities are rudimentary, they lack high-grade, high-quality
intelligence to fight terrorism," said Rohan Gunaratna, a
Singapore-based terrorism expert who has researched terrorism in China.

On
Wednesday, Chinese police for the first time said that the Monday car
crash into a crowed of people was an act of terror. The identities of
the attackers released Wednesday indicates they are members of a
repressed Muslim ethnic group in China.

The incident involved a
Jeep with a driver and two passengers that plowed through pedestrians at
lunchtime before it crashed and burned at an historic bridge close to
the portrait of Chairman Mao on Tiananmen Gate. The gate is near the
compound where China's current crop of Communist Party leaders live and
work.

The attack killed the car's three occupants and left two tourists dead and 40 others injured.

Police
said the "carefully planned, organized and premeditated," attack was
done by Usmen Hasan, his mother Kuwanhan Reyim, and his wife Gulkiz.
Police said the trio lit gasoline to start the fire that killed them.

Police
found gasoline, gasoline containers, a steel stick and a flag with
"extremist religious content" inside the Jeep, and long knives and
"jihad", or "holy war", flags in the temporary residence of five
suspects who were detained 10 hours after the incident with the help of
police in Xinjiang, reported Xinhua, the state news agency.

The
names of the alleged attackers sound like those of the predominantly
Muslim Uighur ethnic group in northwest China's Xinjiang region.

The
five also have Uighur-sounding names. Beijing police led a city-wide
manhunt for suspects as they issued notices to hotels for information on
first two and later eight suspects, all Xinjiang-based and
Uighur-sounding apart from one Han Chinese, China's dominant ethnic
group, who was born in Sichuan but lived in Xinjiang.

A huge area
of desert, mountain and mineral wealth in Chinese Central Asia, Xinjiang
has witnessed regular unrest and many fatalities in recent years
involving the indigenous Uighurs and the Han immigrants who have arrived
in large numbers from elsewhere in China in recent decades.

The
Uighur have long complained about repressive rule by Beijing that
restricts their freedom of movement and religious belief. The Chinese
government argues it has brought badly-needed development, and says
violent incidents there are fomented by 'hostile foreign forces'.

Monday's
incident marks a successful escalation of tactics by Xinjiang
separatist groups seeking to form an 'East Turkestan' independent of
China, said Gunaratna, who has researched terrorism in Xinjiang.

"The
only group with the intention and capability to mount this attack is
the East Turkestan Islamic Movement," or ETIM, a shadowy organization,
based in the Afghan-Pakistan border, that some say does not exist.

"Aimed more directly at the bull's-eye that is the spiritual heart of China" -- targeting the spiritual heart. Typical of jihadis.

Anywhere Muslims emigrate, there is conflict, there is jihad. Anywhere there are Muslims, there is conflict. When they reach a certain level of population, they engage in jihad in order oppress and subjugate the non-Muslim community, using violence and terror when necessary.

BEIJING--It could hardly have been a more audacious attack or one
that was aimed more directly at the bull's-eye that is the spiritual
heart of China.

At 12:05 p.m. Monday, a
white sport utility vehicle entered a sidewalk and drove nearly 500
yards, plowing through tourists and police, until it stopped near the
iconic portrait of Mao Tse-tung that hangs over the main gate in front
of Tiananmen Square.

The Chinese state news reported that five people were killed and 38
injured. The dead included the three occupants of the car and two
tourists, one a Filipina woman and the other a Chinese man.

There were some suggestions that police were looking at suspects from the Uighur community, Muslims from the northwest of China.

A purported police notice put out Monday, apparently after the
incident, advised Beijing hotel owners to look out for a 25-year-old and
a 42-year-old man from the towns of Pichan and Lukchun, who have been
involved in deadly tit-for-tat violence since the summer. The notice,
which was published on the Baidu.com Internet site, referred to an
unspecified incident in Beijing, and said that the men had at least one
light-colored SUV and several license plates.

Few other details were forthcoming from the official Chinese news organs and photographs were scrubbed clean from the Internet.

BEIJING
(AP) — Assailants attacked police and other people with knives and set
fire to police cars in China’s restive far-western region on Wednesday
in violence that killed 27 people, one of the bloodiest incidents since
unrest in the regional capital killed nearly 200 in 2009.The
early-morning violence – described by state media as riots – also left
at least three people injured in a remote area of the Turkic-speaking
Xinjiang region, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Police stations, a
government building and a construction site were targeted in the
attacks, it said.Xinhua said the attackers stabbed victims and set
fires, killing 17 people including nine police or security officials,
before officers shot and killed 10 of the assailants in Lukqun, a
township in Turpan prefecture. The agency cited officials with the
region’s Communist Party committee.Xinjiang (shihn-jeeahng) is home
to a large population of minority Muslim Uighurs (WEE’-gurs) but is
ruled by China’s Han ethnic majority. The region borders Central Asia,
Afghanistan and Pakistan and has been the scene of numerous violent
incidents in recent years, including ethnic riots four years ago in
Urumqi, the regional capital.Xinhua did not provide details about
the cause of the unrest and it was impossible to independently confirm
the report. Information is tightly controlled in the region, which the
Chinese government regards as highly sensitive and where it has imposed a
heavy security presence to quell unrest. However, forces are spread
thin across the vast territory and the response from authorities is
often slow.

The US disgracefully takes the Muslim side, as it always does in every conflict at home and abroad:

Islamic jihad is hardly the fault of America, as the left loves to posit. It is not our fault.
Uygurs are attacking China, the Chechens Russia and Boko Harem Africa.
The only thing Russia, China, the USA & sub-Saharan Africa have in common is not being Muslim.

URUMQI,
April 24 (Xinhua) -- A violent clash between suspected terrorists and
authorities in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has
left 21 people dead, including 15 community workers and police officers
and six of the suspects, local authorities said on Wednesday.

The
attacks happened around Tuesday noon in a town of Bachu County, Kashgar
Prefecture, some 1,200 km southwest of Urumqi, regional capital of
Xinjiang.

Three community workers
discovered suspicious individuals and knives in the home of a local
resident. They then reported the situation to their supervisors via
phone, but were seized by the suspects who had been hiding in the house.

Police
officers and community officials from the township rushed to the scene,
but were attacked and killed by the suspects, who also killed the three
community workers they had seized earlier and burned the house.

Other police officers who arrived at the scene shot the suspects and got the situation under control.

Two other people from the authorities were also injured in the clash, and eight terrorist suspects were captured.

An initial investigation has indicated that the suspects are all terrorists who were planning on violent attacks.

Others say that the Chinese are trumping up the whole
problem. Funny how everyone seems to imagine a jihad problem, yet no one
really has one. "China jails 20 on jihad, separatism charges in restive
Xinjiang," from Reuters, March 27:

(Reuters) - Chinese courts have sentenced 20 people to up to
life in jail on charges of separatism and plotting to carry out jihad
in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, the government said on
Wednesday.

The courts in Kashgar and Bayingol said the 20 - all ethnic Uighurs
judging by their names - had had their "thoughts poisoned by religious
extremism", and used cell phones and DVDs "to spread Muslim religious
propaganda", the Xinjiang government said on its official news website
(www.ts.cn).

Some of them bought weapons to kill policemen as part of their jihad
and spread propaganda related to the banned East Turkestan Islamic
Movement, the report said, a group which China says wages a violent
campaign for a separate state.

Many Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people native to Xinjiang,
chafe at Chinese controls on their religion, language and culture.

China has blamed violence in energy-rich Xinjiang - strategically
located on the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Central Asia -
on Islamic separatists who want to establish an independent East
Turkestan.

Some Chinese officials have also blamed attacks on Muslim militants
trained in Pakistan. But many rights groups say China overstates the
threat to justify its tight grip on the region.

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, said
the 20 were actually guilty of no more than listening to the U.S.-funded
Radio Free Asia and using the internet to discuss the importance of
religious and cultural freedom.

"Giving heavy sentences to Uighurs (on the excuse) of terrorism is
China's special way of carrying out suppression," he said in an emailed
statement.

In December, a Xinjiang court sentenced three men to death and
another to life in prison for attempting to hijack an aircraft in June.

Six members of China's Uighur minority tried to hijack a plane flying from a restive city in the far-western Xinjiang region on Friday but crew members and passengers thwarted them, authorities said.

The plane returned safely to the airport in Hotan city -- which has seen a spate of violent clashes between mainly Muslim Uighurs and police due to simmering ethnic tensions -- and the suspects were detained, authorities said.

"The six hijackers are Uighurs," Hou Hanmin, a spokeswoman for the government of Xinjiang told AFP.

"For the moment, we don't know the purpose of the hijack. It's still under investigation," she said, adding at least seven crew members and passengers had been injured in the incident....

Jia Qinglin (R), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, meets with Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, June 28, 2012. (Xinhua/Li Tao)

BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin on Thursday called for closer ties between China and Islamic countries.

Jia made the remark while meeting with Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu at the Great Hall of the People.

Hailing the state of relations between China and the Islamic world, Jia said China and Islamic countries are political partners with mutual support, economic partners with reciprocal cooperation and cultural partners with mutual exchanges.

The two sides should strengthen communication and coordination, promote dialogue and map out the future development of their relations from a long-term perspective, said Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Jia said he appreciates the support given by Islamic countries on issues concerning China's core interests. He also spoke highly of the efforts made by the OIC in consolidating and promoting China-Islam relations.

Ihsanoglu, who is in Beijing for a seminar on Chinese and Islamic civilizations, said Islamic countries attach great importance to their relations with China.

He said the OIC is ready to strengthen communication and cooperation with China in order to boost bilateral ties and cooperation.

What is the goal of Obama's State Department whose mission is statecraft and crafting policy, not for today, but for 20 to 20 years from now? If you can't overthrow them all, why Mubarak and not Ahmadinejad? Why Qaddafi and not Assad? What is the strategy? What is the statecraft objective?

Here again is further proof of the uselessness (and worse) of the United Nations. Whatever sway or swagger American had in that collective negation of humanity has withered under the effete Obama. This is further proof of Iran's growing influence (Syria is a vassal state, a proxy of Iran).

"When an institution reaches the degree of corruption, brazen cynicism and dishonor demonstrated by the U.N. in its shameful history, to discuss it at length is to imply that its members and supporters may possibly be making an innocent error about its nature—which is no longer possible. There is no margin for error about a monstrosity that was created for the alleged purpose of preventing wars by uniting the world against any aggressor, but proceeded to unite it against any victim of aggression. The expulsion of a charter member, the Republic of China—an action forbidden by the U.N.'s own charter—was a 'moment of truth,' a naked display of the United Nation’s soul.

What was Red China's qualification for membership in the U.N.? The fact that her government seized power by force, and has maintained it for twenty-two years by terror. What disqualified Nationalist China? The fact that she was a friend of the United States."

Asked in a 1964 interview for Playboy magazine if she would "favor U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations," Ayn Rand answered:

"Yes. I do not sanction the grotesque pretense of an organization allegedly devoted to world peace and human rights, which includes Soviet Russia, the worst aggressor and bloodiest butcher in history, as one of its members. The notion of protecting rights, with Soviet Russia among the protectors, is an insult to the concept of rights and to the intelligence of any man who is asked to endorse or sanction such an organization. I do not believe that an individual should cooperate with criminals, and, for all the same reasons, I do not believe that free countries should cooperate with dictatorships."

Here are the Drudge headlines today. Funny, although no one in media speaks of it (including Drudge), it's all jihad. All of it.

"Some influential members of the international community unfortunately... have been undermining the opportunity for political settlement, calling for a regime change, pushing the oppositionists to power," he said.

Beijing's ambassador to the UN, Li Baodong, said the resolution would have been counter-productive.

US Ambassador Susan Rice: "For months this council has been held hostage by a couple of members"

"China maintains that, under the current circumstances, to put undue emphasis on pressuring the Syrian government... or impose any solution will not help resolve the Syrian issue," he said.

"I believe there are more important issues for the Security Council to take care of... such as the starvation in Somalia, and Gaza," one told BBC News.

"Isn't there anything else apart from us for the Security Council to deal with?"

Early accounts of the casualties in Homs talked of as many as 200 deaths, but one of the main activist groups later revised its confirmed toll down to 55.

Homs appears to have come under a "pretty relentless" bombardment, which targeted areas outside government control, the BBC's Paul Woods reported from just outside the city, where he was travelling with fighters from the Free Syria Army.

Homs was one of the first cities to join anti-Assad protests, and became one of the focal points of dissent after government forces fired on crowds in April last year. Many army defectors have sought refuge in the city.

State media dismissed the Homs casualty reports as a "hysterical campaign of incitement" by armed gangs designed to influence the UN.

International media outlets are restricted in Syria, making it difficult to verify the claims of either side.

Tunisia moved to sever relations with the Assad government following the Homs violence

Activists have been attacking Syrian embassies around the world in response to the violence in Homs.

Syria has been gripped by nationwide protests against Mr Assad's government for almost a year, in a struggle that has claimed at least 5,400 lives, according to the UN.

General Motors agreed in Shanghai today to develop an electric vehicle platform with longtime Chinese partner SAIC. It effectively moves GM's future electric vehicle development to China. Unclear is whether this would also lead to assembly of future EVs for the U.S. market in China.

The deal came as the Chinese government is pushing foreign automakers to give Chinese companies EV technology they lack, according to an Associated Press report. U.S. lawmakers have complained that China is "shaking down" GM to get Volt secrets. Electric vehicle development in the U.S. has been developed with extensive U.S. taxpayer funding.

Details of the plan were not provided, and GM has denied it will involve handing over intellectual property underlying the Volt.

Oh yes, we have been hearing about the Uighurs (the Muslims in China) who have been agitating and creating civil unrest. It is the pattern for Muslims in non-Muslim countries to impose, agitate, and force Islam on the secular public square. Here are remarks from an Atlas reader living in China:

The Muslims are on the increase in Hong Kong. We have had spates in the past, they have been calling on the government for Muslim holidays, Islamic banks so far falling on death ears (no other ethnic group has done this.) They even protested on a street name in Chinese which they said was derogatory. It is becoming a joke to watch how they are chipping away at our freedomRecently notices in religious section of the SCMP promoting people to understanding Islam.

Mind you, the article below was the only Chinese newspaper account that reported motive. Here was the typical Chinese news report -- they, too, appear to be adhering to a sharia-compliant standard, save for the below report (and there was nothing in the Western news outlets about it).

The body of a 35-year-old South Asian woman, who was almost decapitated, was washed up on the beach. The body, with deep cuts to the neck, was clothed only in underwear when it was found by an elderly woman on Friday morning...........

An asylum seeker from Pakistan, accused of killing his estranged wife because she had lived "against Islamic law," will appear in Kowloon City Magistrates' Court today charged with murder.

A hooded and handcuffed Tahir Nawer, 38, was yesterday lunchtime taken by police to an area near 230 Tung Chau Street where, with the help of an interpreter, the crime was reconstructed.

The group then went to the nearby Tung Chau Street Park and then to a bus stop in Cheung Sha Wan Road. Two hours later they were at a beach near Sham Tseng in the New Territories.

Tahir was remanded in police custody.

The naked body of the woman, 35, was found on Tsing Lung Tau beach on Friday morning. Her throat had been slashed.

Tahir was arrested on Saturday morning, about 19 hours after the body was found.

According to reports, Tahir allegedly told police he gave his wife a drug-laced drink in the park. They then took a 52X bus to Tsing Lung Tau beach near 44 Castle Peak Road.

At the beach he allegedly stripped her to humiliate her, slashed her throat and threw the body on the ground. He buried her belongings behind a bush. In the beach reconstruction, police used a dummy and a mobile phone charger with wire cord attached. The suspect made gestures during which he used the cord to strangle the dummy before using a plastic knife to cut its throat.

According to a source, the suspect is a devoted Muslim who became critical of his wife - a non- believer - who refused to dress in

Muslim garb after the couple arrived in Hong Kong as asylum seekers a few years ago.

They were receiving welfare and lived in a subdivided unit in Nam Cheong Street, Sham Shui Po. They separated after the suspect was accused of beating his wife.

He then became acquainted with a woman from India who he now considers to be his second wife. She gave birth to a girl a month ago.

The suspect is said to have been in constant contact with his estranged wife and became dismayed at the life she was leading.

HOTAN, Xinjiang - Police shot down 14 rioters who attacked a police station in Hotan city of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Monday, a Communist Party official in Hotan said Wednesday.

The official, who declined to be named, said the attack left four people dead, including an armed police officer, a security guard, a woman and a teenage girl. At least three others were injured.

Rioters hacked security guard Memet Eli to death while they were trying to break into the Na'erbage police station shortly after 12 pm Monday, said Ablet Metniyaz, chief of the police station.

"He is just 25. He planned to get married in September," said Abliz, an officer of the police station.

In addition to Eli, an armed police and two civilians died in the incident, according to Metniyaz, 38, who has been serving as chief of the police station for three years.

The rioters had taken six civilian people and some police staff hostage, and set fire and smashed things in the police station, leaving damaged computers, printers, furniture and clothes scattered around, Metniyaz said.

Shouting frantic religious slogans like "Allah the only God", the rioters ran to the top floor and police opened fire to stop them, said an anonymous policeman with the police station.

When the attack took place, most of the police station's staff were following Metniyaz to visit local residents in an effort to seek their opinions about safeguarding public security.

The rioters had occupied the police station when Metniyaz led his team back.

"I shouted in Uygur language, asking the rioters to stop doing things that run against the law and to settle disputes in peaceful way. But they kept casting gasoline bottles and rocks to us," said Metniyaz.

"I saw the rioters hacking innocent people, some of them got injuries on their faces, noses and ears."

Rioters also attacked the adjacent industrial and commercial bureau, injuring two staff there....

Everywhere Muslims live in non-Muslim countries, there is conflict and agitation, the level of which is determined by their numbers.

Once again the sharia compliant media never mention Muslims or Islam. This is a BBC story, and they are the most irresponsible and reckless when prostrating themselves before allah. The Uighurs are Muslims. Different countries use different euphemisms for Muslim. In the UK, "Asian" is used in place of Muslim. In France, "youth" or "immigrant," or "immigrant youth." "Moroccan" is big in Southern Europe; "North African," too.

In China, it's the Uighurs.

The Uighur detainees at Gitmo were released to the pink, sandy beaches of Bermuda; remember that?

St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday.

Chinese experts said the move reflected closer relations between Beijing and Moscow and is not aimed at challenging the dollar, but to protect their domestic economies.

"About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies," Putin said at a joint news conference with Wen in St. Petersburg.

The two countries were accustomed to using other currencies, especially the dollar, for bilateral trade. Since the financial crisis, however, high-ranking officials on both sides began to explore other possibilities.

The yuan has now started trading against the Russian rouble in the Chinese interbank market, while the renminbi will soon be allowed to trade against the rouble in Russia, Putin said.

"That has forged an important step in bilateral trade and it is a result of the consolidated financial systems of world countries," he said.

Putin made his remarks after a meeting with Wen. They also officiated at a signing ceremony for 12 documents, including energy cooperation.

The documents covered cooperation on aviation, railroad construction, customs, protecting intellectual property, culture and a joint communiqu. Details of the documents have yet to be released.

Putin said one of the pacts between the two countries is about the purchase of two nuclear reactors from Russia by China's Tianwan nuclear power plant, the most advanced nuclear power complex in China.

[..]Wen said at the press conference that the partnership between Beijing and Moscow has "reached an unprecedented level" and pledged the two countries will "never become each other's enemy".

TEL AVIV — China, Iran and North Korea have established a strategic
alliance that focuses on missile and nuclear development, according to a new
report.

The report said that Beijing, Pyongyang and Teheran were helping each other
in missile and nuclear programs. The report, titled “China, Iran and North
Korea: A Triangular Strategic Alliance,” by Israel’s GLORIA Center said China
and North Korea were the key suppliers of Scud-based ballistic missiles to
Iran’s military, the target of Western sanctions.

“This flurry of activities underscored the growing proliferation threats
posed by DPRK [North Korea] assistance to Iran’s missile capabilities, which has
also led to collaboration in the nuclear realm,” the report, published in the
Middle East Review of International Affairs, said.